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My experience was finding a short enough stock had been a bit challenging. Your 243 will do great. In our case we came up with A H&R 300 BLK with a youth stock that is the lightest option we tried. For reasons of fit and weight @ 9 years and the H&R 300 BLK Seems to be my sons favorite option. We have a CZ 527 300 BLK also in a Boyds At One adjustable stock that he likes also with these reduced loads. He has not hunted deer yet and we have only began to shoot reduced 123 grain SP loads for target practice only. The reduced loads we have worked up still bark a bit without a moderator. Yet the recoil with these reduced loads is comparable to a 22 hornet.

Suppose with ear muffs the report of even the reduced load is manageable. Yet I find it regrettable that as a parent I have to go through the paperwork and pay an additional 200 dollars on the already heavy taxed suppressor to purchase the moderator to protect my 9 year old sons hearing as well as mine. In terms of our right to bear arms our country has been second too none. In terms of our right to protect our hearing we lag a lot behind other countries based on my observation.

Back to the deer hunting rifle I expect we will graduate to a full load behind a Barns Tac-TX or a moderate load behind a Nosler 125 grain ballistic tip for a hunting load.

I used an Encore frame that I use for a SML platform and bought a .260 Rem barrel and scope on, added a very efficient brake and reload light. Very accurate, ability to grow due to the collapsible stock and I like it too.

My son started out with 7mm-08 in Ruger American. It worked well for him.

I bought a Howa Mini Action in 6.5 Grendel for my 10 year old daughter to use. She is very petit so also bought the shortest Boyd's stock to put on it. Still a bit long for her, but she carries it like a champ and shoots it well. Very accurate, light kicking gun. It also has a 3 position safety.

My son got his first deer Friday with his youth 700 .243 using factory Remington 100 gr core-lock. It was his first time to shoot at a deer.

Some years ago I bought a Model 700 Youth 243 for the grandkids to use. They've killed a few deer with it, but the thing that amazes me is how accurate this rifle is. With my favorite load of 45.0 W760 and an 85 grain Sierra HPBT, it is an absolute tack driver. I would not feel the least bit handicapped using it myself, and I'm picky about my choice in deer rifles.